Waking in the City
It's autumn and time to close
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the windows silencing the crows
who rose at dawn to shriek and caw.
Now it's the steam heat that goes
on, hissing, and something between purr
and roar whirrs down the street, slower,
slower, regardless of dark or hour,
devouring cans, groaning for more.
